Batajnica Air Base

Stats

Batajnica Air Base.

Category.	Statistic.
Location.	Serbia.
Opened in.	Built in 1947, but opened in 1951.
Closed in.	Still open.
Operated by.	Serbian DoD.
Owned by.	Serbian Air-force.
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Batajnica's control tower.

A MiG-21 gate guardian at Batajnica. Author: Srđan Popović.

History

Batajnica Air Base was devastated in a 25 day NATO bombing raid in During the 1999. 2 USAF F-16 fighter jets visited Batajnica airbase in June 2006, the first since the NATO bombing.

Their are plans for it to open to civil aircraft in the near future. Charter and diverted Serbian flights have laded at the air base on occasion since the fall of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.

See also

1. Noteworthy Air bases